While a co-worker or friend may expect a gift in the $50-75 range, someone in an urban market may have double the expectations. Here's the ballpark you should be aiming for: Coworker and/or a distant family friend or relative: $50-$75. Relative or friend: $75-$100.
The manuscript containing the story of Beowulf was discovered in England in the l600s. It is written in Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxon invaders who settled in England between A . D . 450 and 600. There is some debate about when Beowulf was written and who wrote it.
Beowulf is a man who boasts, yet he also has wisdom and humility. On the one hand Beowulf is reminded that pride will bring destruction: until his portion of pride increases and flourishes within him; then the watcher sleeps, the souls guardian; that sleep is too sound, bound in its own cares (5.9).